I bought a punching bag (the stand-up kind) and a new pool cue at Academy today.  I've been meaning to get the bag to practice swinging with my waster against something.  I'd been telling myself I'd build a makiwara for the longest time, but this will do even better.  The pool cue is snazzy, graphite or somesuch.  I broke the tip off of my old one a while back, and haven't been able to use it due to me being so lazy.  But, this one's about 1 inch too long to fit in my case, so I'll have to saw a hole in the case to accomodate it.

Tomorrow I have to go to work, some workshop on science policy (goddamnit), and then I'm driving to houston to go to another welding class. Dig it, man.